Saturday, July 25, 2009

Can Obama withstand his health care conflict?

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Anonymous said...

As usual Chastanet should stick to buying and selling.
This incompetent drivel that he constantly writes is an embarassment. Individuals like Chastanet should be lauded for their business acumen but once they indulge in public policy they are a danger.

He does not have a clue about what is happening in theObama HealthCare issue so a little ellucidation.

A close reading of the two main bills, one backed by Democrats in the House and the other issued by Sen. Edward Kennedy's Health committee, contradict assurances by President Obama. To be sure, it isn't easy to comb through their 2,000 pages of tortured legal language. But page by page, the bills reveal a web of restrictions, fines, and mandates that would radically change your health-care coverage.

If you prize choosing your own cardiologist or urologist under your company's Preferred Provider Organization plan (PPO), if your employer rewards your non-smoking, healthy lifestyle with reduced premiums, if you love the bargain Health Savings Account (HSA) that insures you just for the essentials, or if you simply take comfort in the freedom to spend your own money for a policy that covers the newest drugs and diagnostic tests -- you may be shocked to learn that you could lose all of those good things under the rules proposed in the two bills that herald a health-care revolution.

In short, the Obama platform would mandate extremely full, expensive, and highly subsidized coverage -- including a lot of benefits people would never pay for with their own money -- but deliver it through a highly restrictive, HMO-style plan that will determine what care and tests you can and can't have. It's a revolution, all right, but in the wrong direction.

To put it simply.

The only way Obama and the Democrats can sell this bill is by lying. That's all they have left. And the lies are getting bigger and more obvious as time goes on. They've lied about how much it will cost, that it won't add to the deficit, that your private insurance plan won't be affected, the small businesses will benefit, that you can still choose your own doctor...the list just keeps growing like some nightmare involving Pinocchio's nose.

The Democrats are banking on nobody paying attention right now as well as the hope that by the time the American people actually realize what kind of health care reform Congress has wrought, it will be too late to stop it.

July 26, 2009 at 5:24 PM
Anonymous said...

Stop hating on Obama and get a life.

July 27, 2009 at 12:08 PM

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